The Zookeeper's War

The Zookeeper's WarIt is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo's director. Together, they struggle to look after the animals through the air raids and food shortages. When the zoo's staff is drafted into the army, forced labourers are sent in as replacements. At first, Vera finds the idea abhorrent, but gradually she realizes that the new workers are the zoo's only hope,

the coded messages they keep finding and the feeling that

Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory

and Budapest-whose decor evokes the confident affluence of the nineteenth century-as well as the most modern and stylish temples to gastronomy

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quick breads and frozen indulgences like Strawberry Lemonade Granitas

Hazlitt's focus on non-governmental solutions

and the growing threat from Stalin's Russia

From Betty Hicks